UN suspends all aid convoys to Syria

The UN has suspended humanitarian aid convoys in Syria following a deadly airstrike on aid trucks. The attack late on Monday came just hours after the Syrian military declared the week-long U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire over

AREA CONTROL: As of Sep 20

Syrian army

Rebel control

So-called Islamic State

Kurdish control

TURKEY

SYRIA

Detail map

LEBANON

Damascus

JORDAN

IRAQ

200km 120 miles

Barad

Kafr Taal

Nubl

Mayer

Zahraa

Hraytan

Bashnatrah

SYRIA

Aleppo

Hours after declaration of truce’s end on Monday night, Syrian government
resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held Aleppo

Tal-Shair

Tiyarah

Tel Shegheb

5km 3 miles

Uram al-Kubra: At least 12 Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers killed when convoy, being unloaded at warehouse, came under attack

At least 18 of 31 trucks in convoy, due to deliver aid for 78,000 people
in rebel-held town, destroyed

U.S. says airstrike was carried out by either Syrian or Russian aircraft

Source: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

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